Dear #Migration #History buffs. Ever wondered which famous people were migrants? I was toying around with web-scraping Rstats @rstats4ds and compiled a dataset of the migration status of 10.000 European "famous people" from 1400 - 1950 🧵with prelim results + a favor...

We’re hiring a Team Lead GESIS @gesisorg.bsky.social Computational Social Science department! 🌐 Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? 👉 Link: hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesi… ❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail

🆕 Data on irregular #migration is often limited, outdated and even biased. But more data brings its own risks too. In our latest policy brief, we explore ways to strengthen the evidence base while treating data with care. Read the full policy brief on zenodo.org/records/142768…

I never held a talk where St. Nicolas suprised me at the end. What a fun day Universität Konstanz . Many thanks to Claudia Diehl for the invite! Talk was on how much local policies matter for refugee integration in Germany. Paper is here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

🚨Three days until deadline! Apply until December 20 for our workshop on “The Impact of Immigration and Refugee Inflows on Host Country Economies”. All infos below ⬇️"

Its #MigrantsDay ! 🌏🧳 Check out our interactive tool on global migration flows to learn about where people move. We also show you how to create your own plots in R to teach others about the movement of #migrants, #refugees and people within Germany 🇩🇪 over the past 30 years

Congratulations to the authors @moritzmarbach at UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy, Ehsan Vallizadeh at @iab_news, Niklas Harder at DeZIM-Institut, Dominik Hangartner at ETH Zurich, and Jens Hainmueller at Stanford University. Read the full paper published today in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A: academic.oup.com/jrsssa/advance… (6/6)

How do refugee and asylum policies change over time and across regions? We’ll discuss this during the launch of the Dataset of World Refugee and Asylum Policies, co-organized by the Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement and the Immigration Policy Lab THU, JANUARY 16, 2025 4-5pm DC / 10-11am Geneva

Thread of hilarious maps you have (probably) never seen before 🧵 1. The “international community”

A study led by Alex Scacco & Bernd Beber found that information provided to prospective migrants in #Nigeria heightened perceptions of risks along the “Mediterranean route”, one of the most dangerous migration corridors in the world. bit.ly/htri20098

Was a pleasure to present our paper "How reception centres affect the integration of refugees" at IAB. Paper now out @europeansocieties.bsky.social The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social.bsky.social . Thanks for the invite @yuliyakosyakova.bsky.social ! direct.mit.edu/euso/article/d…

📘 Vol 64.1 Did #Merkel's 2015 decision attract more migration to #Germany? Jasper Tjaden & Tobias Heidland, moving to heidland.bsky.social study the #PullEffect hypothesis & if welcoming migration policies 👋 have sustained effects on #Migration towards destination countries 🌎 👉 bit.ly/433ra05 #OA

Protecting childhoods, shaping futures: Join us in our call to #EndChildTrafficking! The 25th OSCE Alliance Conference will bring together global leaders, experts, and change-makers to tackle this global crisis. Register now! 👉bit.ly/25thAllianceAg… 📍Vienna 31 March - 1

Looking for RA's based in Potsdam/Berlin! Universität Potsdam Hertie School Data Science Lab

New paper out in JEMS. Most assisted returnees in our IOM - UN Migration 🇺🇳 sample have stable preferences to stay, but among those who consider migrating again, risk perceptions and income at home are good predictors. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…